Dr. Grooms is an anthropological archaeologist who works primarily in the Eastern Woodlands of North America. In the broadest sense, his research focuses on crafting archaeological narratives of Native histories informed by Native American perspectives. He uses methods from geoarchaeology, landscape archaeology, and chronological modeling, and interprets the resulting data within a theoretical framework that draws on traditional anthropological theory as well as Native American philosophies and epistemologies. Dr. Grooms’ work in Mississippi and Louisiana has focused on early monumentality in North America at sites that participated in the Poverty Point phenomenon (ca. 4500-3000 cal yr BP). His interests in community-based archaeology led him to work with the Crow Tribe (Apsáalooke) in Montana in 2016. Dr. Grooms’ most recent project is a community-based project in collaboration with the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina called the Lumbee River Archaeology Project (LRAP). Dr. Grooms is a citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of Anthropology
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Phone: (828) 262-2283
Fax: (828) 262-2982